Dwight “Buzz” Holmes, Idyllwild Master Chorale musical director and conductor, likes to mix it up. Recently, IMC’s biggest successes have been Holmes’ fusion concerts. Examples include the Winter Solstice celebrations mixing traditional Christmas carols and sacred music and a second half with jazz soloists and a jazz combo; the spring concerts where Holmes combines traditional…
“The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,” in Spanish, was what started Eduardo Santiago on his career path. “I was confined in bed for two months with hepatitis when I was 7,” said Santiago remembering his boyhood in Cuba. “It felt like two years.” The gift of the book from his uncle not only helped Santiago through…
Eryn Noble (left) and triplets Calista (back), Jossilin and Lorelei Nowell get ready to guess how many milk balls are in the jar at Idyllwild Library’s “Pi day” on 3.14.15.
The 2015 Jazz in Pines festival is still five months away, but planning, preparations and work have already begun. This year, the major change is behind the scenes as the Idyllwild Arts Academy assumes management of the Festival production from the Associates of the Idyllwild Arts Foundation. “There will be a lot of familiar faces…
First-place winner for her pastel “Snow Day,” Lynn Ryan enjoys the other pieces of art during the Art Alliance of Idyllwild’s Eye of the Artist event at the Caine Learning Center on Saturday.
Dr. Patrick Smith, professor of geology at Mt. San Jacinto College, is the next featured speaker for the Idyllwild Community Center Speaker Series. His talk, “Earthquakes Between Two Faults,” will discuss what Idyllwild and its environs may experience in the near future as a result of being situated between two earthquake fault zones — the…
The last of four Saturday bald eagle counts will take place Saturday morning, March 14. This is the 36th year of the eagle counts. During the February count, more than 275 people participated, looking for soaring or perched bald eagles. Observers sighted 17 bald eagles; two adult eagles were seen at Lake Hemet. No experience…
Reading is usually a solitary activity, just you and the author having an intimate conversation. But in Idyllwild, that’s not always the case. Though we do have an unusual number of readers in our small community, we also have a long history of groups of people meeting on a regular basis to share their love of reading, literature and the written word. I recently put out the word that the Idyllwild Library would like to support the many book groups in our area by requesting several copies of their next book choice from other branches of the Riverside County Library System and its Inland Library Network partners. We offered to make them available for check-out here at the library. The response was exciting and warmed my librarian’s heart.
Erin O’Neill has lived her life with the bold colors and nuanced textures that, even if she had not created art pieces, could be viewed as living art — an impressive three-dimensional tapestry woven year-to-year by following her personal artistic impulses. As a teenager in Houston, O’Neill had a regular Friday news segment at the…
Rick Rickman, author, documentarian and Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer, will judge the upcoming Art Alliance of Idyllwild Eye of the Artist art show and fundraising auction on Saturday, March 7. Rickman won the Pulitzer for team coverage of the 1984 Olympics held in Los Angeles. Working for the Orange County Register, Rickman shared the award with…
